I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!

If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Walk in the light before the dawn of darkness.

The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history.

Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

I am god...to the dislexic segment of the population.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.

I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.